Lestes wallacei

Kirby, W. F., 1889, Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Odonata in the Collection of the British Museum, chiefly from Africa., Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889, pp. 297-303 : 302-303

Lestes wallacei .

Exp. al. 55 millim.; long. pter. 2½ millim.; long. corp. 46 millim.

Female. Head buff, a bronzed spot, shading into green between the ocelli, a black spot on each side of the frontal ocellus, a black stripe before it, and a short stripe bordering the inner orbits; the upper mouth-parts are also almost entirely black. Thorax buff, transverselY striated, with a broad green stripe on each side of the dorsal carina, and a narrower bronzed shoulder-stripe, showing green in certain lights, beneath. Legs buff, clothed with long fine black bristles; femora with a black line beneath; tarsi black. Abdomen buff, bronzed above, except at the sutures. Wings hyaline, slightly clouded at the tips; fore wings with 4 and hind wings with 5 postnodal cross-nervures; pterostigma large, covering 3 or 3 12/ cells.

Hab, Sarawak, Borneo (Wallace).

Appears to be allied to L. viridula, Ramb., but much larger.